Full-time Faculty
Elizabeth Shaffer
Elizabeth Shaffer
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 0885
location_onResidential School History and Dialogue Centre
Limited cross appointment with the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Dr. Shaffer is crossed-appointed with UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), where she acts as the Centre’s Executive Director in a seconded role. The Centre is a research unit th...Read more
Eric Meyers
Eric Meyers
Associate Professor | Doctoral Studies Committee Chair
emaileric.meyers@ubc.ca
phone604 827 3945
location_onIKBLC 485
Eric M. Meyers is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and conducts research on the information practices of young people in academic and everyday contexts. Eric’s research interests lie at the intersection of information scien...Read more
Erik Kwakkel
Erik Kwakkel
Professor | Director
emailerik.kwakkel@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4448
location_onIKBLC 496
Research Area
Digital and Cultural HeritageI am a Professor at the UBC School of Information where I teach and conduct research on the History of the Book. My primary interests are book design and communication in the premodern world, in particular how information was disseminated and consumed in the age before the invention of the printing ...Read more
Research Area
Digital and Cultural Heritage
Hannah Turner
I am a critical information studies scholar at the iSchool who investigates the connection between documentation, culture, and technology. I was a previously a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Making Culture Lab at SFU. I completed my...Read more
Heather O'Brien
Heather O'Brien
Associate Professor | MLIS Program Chair
emailh.obrien@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5842
location_onIKBLC 486
I am an Associate Professor at the iSchool and I teach courses on human-information interaction, user engagement and information system design. I have an MLIS and PhD from the University of Dalhousie. I have received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), ...Read more
Jennifer Douglas
Jennifer Douglas
Associate Professor | MAS Program Chair
emailjen.douglas@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5905
location_onIKBLC 487
Research Area
Archives and RecordsI am an Associate Professor at the iSchool, where I teach classes on the archival system and profession, archival arrangement and description, and personal and community archives. My work centers on personal archives – how and why they are created, and how archivists understand, represent and prov...Read more
Research Area
Archives and Records
Julia Bullard
I am an assistant professor at the iSchool and I teach courses in knowledge organization, classification theory, and information systems. My research looks at the way that knowledge organization systems are designed, implemented, revised, broken or fixed. I am interested in the design of organizatio...Read more
Lisa Nathan
Lisa Nathan
Associate Professor | Minor in Informatics Program Chair
emaillisa.nathan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1574
location_onIKBLC 481
Hello and thank you for your interest.
Working for an educational institution that occupies unceded Musqueam territory, each day challenges me to fulfill my responsibilities as a guest on their territory. Part of that work involves (re)imagining ways to define, value, and care for information, st...Read more
Luanne Sinnamon
I am an Associate Professor at the UBC iSchool and served as Director from 2015-2020. I hold a PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, an MLS degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MA (Russian history) from Carleton University, and a BA from the University of To...Read more
Luciana Duranti
I am a Professor at the iSchool where I teach courses on diplomatics, records appraisal for selection and acquisition, preservation of digital records and advanced archival theory. My research aims to find solutions to digital record issues that can be universally applied. I analyze the historical d...Read more
ON LEAVE
until July 1, 2023
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
ON LEAVE
until July 1, 2023
Associate Professor
phone604 827 4530
location_onIKBLC 493
I am an Associate Professor at the iSchool, cross-appointed with the Department of Linguistics. I am also an associate member of the Department of Computer Science. My areas of research interest are natural language processing, deep learning, Arabic natural language processing, and social media mi...Read more
Richard Arias-Hernández
Richard Arias-Hernández
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailrichard.arias@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1458
location_onIKBLC 484
I am an Associate Professor of Teaching at the School of Information at UBC. I teach courses on digital libraries, digital collections, information systems, information visualization, data management, analytics, and visualization at the iSchool graduate programs and in the Bachelor of Media Studies ...Read more
Rick Kopak
Rick Kopak
Associate Professor of Teaching | UBC iSchool Graduate Advisor
emailr.kopak@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2898
location_onIKBLC 495
Research Area
Information DesignB.A. (Alberta), M.L.S., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Area
Information Design
Tess Prendergast
Tess Prendergast
Lecturer
phone604 822 5007
location_onIKBLC 494
Research Area
Libraries and LibrarianshipI am a Lecturer at UBC iSchool, where I teach courses in the area of librarianship and children’s literature. Prior to joining the iSchool in 2019, I worked as a children’s librarian in a large urban public library for over two decades, where my work focused on early literacy support for diverse...Read more
Research Area
Libraries and Librarianship
ON LEAVE
until September 1, 2023
Victoria Lemieux
Victoria Lemieux
ON LEAVE
until September 1, 2023
Professor | Blockchain@UBC Cluster Lead
emailv.lemieux@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9199
location_onIKBLC 488
I am a Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information and lead of the Blockchain research cluster, Blockchain@UBC at the University of British Columbia – Canada’s largest and most diverse research cluster devoted to blockchain technology. My current research is focused on risk to the...Read more
Visiting Academics
Olivier St-Cyr
emailostcyr@mail.ubc.ca
location_onIKBLC 493
Olivier St-Cyr is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Faculty of Information (iSchool) and a cross-appointed Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. St-Cyr received an Honours BA in Computer Science and Psychology from York Un...Read more